Underplayed Gems

Nōnai Poison Berry (2015)

Nōnai Poison Berry poster
Original title
脳内ポイズンベリー
Directed by
Yūichi Satō
Genre
romance film
Country
Japan
Runtime
2h 01m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 11 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A woman in her thirties struggles with romance and relationships. Her inner thoughts are represented as a committee in her brain that debates her decisions.

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What happens

Nōnai Poison Berry (Japanese: 脳内ポイズンベリー, Hepburn: Nōnai Poizun Berii; transl. Poison Berry in My Brain) is a Japanese slice-of-life romance manga series written and illustrated by Setona Mizushiro. It was serialized in Chorus magazine, later relaunched as Cocohana magazine, from December 2009 to March 2015 and collected as five tankōbon volumes by publisher Shueisha. The series was adapted into a live-action film that premiered in Japan in May 2015, as well as a stage play that ran at the New National Theatre, Tokyo, in March 2020, both directed by Yūichi Satō and officially titled Poison Berry in My Brain in English. The Stage play was rerun in 2022 with a different cast. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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